PURPOSE Puerto Ricans have higher lifetime and current asthma prevalence than other
racial and ethnic groups in the United States. A great many Hispanics use ethnomedical …

Background: Childhood asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood. The
highest prevalence of childhood asthma in the United States occurs in the Puerto Rican …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about how childhood asthma affects immigrant Hispanic
families in the United States. Qualitative research is effective for understanding the social …

Disenfranchised ethnic minority communities in the urban United States experience a high
burden of asthma. Conventional office-based patient education often is insufficient to …

Abstract Objectives In New York City, asthma prevalence is greater in Hispanics than non-
Hispanics for both children (10.9% vs. 7.4%) and adults (9.0% vs. 6.3%). Disparities in …

Background There is an increasing prevalence of asthma in the Caribbean and patients
remain non-compliant to therapy despite the development of guidelines for management …

BACKGROUND: The gap in asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality is increasing in low‐
income racial/ethnic minority groups as compared with Caucasians. In order to address …

Educational interventions for new immigrants are usually developed without any input from
the individuals involved. We examined how community based participatory research could …

This study tests the feasibility of a partnership between an academic medical center and
community health workers to perform mutually beneficial research investigating asthma in …

Background and objective. This study examined belief systems of Latino caregivers who
have children with asthma from Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds who resided on …